Derek Stepan scored three goals and Carl Hagelin added two more as the New York Rangers had their best offensive output of the season in a 5-1 win over the Carolina Hurricanes on Saturday.
Henrik Lundqvist made 27 saves and grabbed first star honors for New York, who are on a season-high, three-game winning streak.
Hagelin scored the Rangers’ first two goals of the game, while Stepan netted the final three.
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Andrej Sekera scored a power-play goal with 37 seconds left in the second period to provide the only offense for the Hurricanes.
In Uniondale, New York, John Tavares, Andrew MacDonald and Thomas Vanek scored second-period goals, while backup Kevin Poulin made 26 saves for his first win of the season as the Islanders beat the Boston Bruins 3-1.
Chicago’s Brandon Bollig, Patrick Sharp and Nick Leddy scored within a 4:55 span in the second period as the Blackhawks extended their winning streak to three games in a 5-1 rout of the Winnipeg Jets.
Corey Crawford stopped 26 shots to earn his eighth win of the season. Niklas Hjalmarsson and Ben Smith also scored, and Marcus Kruger had a pair of assists for the Blackhawks.
Emerson Etem and Corey Perry both scored two goals to lift the Anaheim Ducks over the reeling Buffalo Sabres 6-3, while Brett Connolly and Valtteri Filppula scored in the third period to lift the Tampa Bay Lightning over the St Louis Blues 4-2.
After being embarrassed by Washington at home 24 hours earlier, the Philadelphia Flyers ground out a 1-0 win at the New Jersey Devils, and Deryk Engelland, Chris Kunitz and Jussi Jokinen scored to backup Jeff Zatkoff’s 19 saves in the Pittsburgh Penguins’ 3-0 victory over the Columbus Blue Jackets.
In Washington, Nicklas Backstrom scored in the first period and added the winning goal in the shootout to lift the Capitals over the Florida Panthers 3-2, while Roberto Luongo made 21 saves for his second shutout of the season in the Vancouver Canucks’ 4-0 win over the Toronto Maple Leafs.
In other games, the Nashville Predators edged the Sacramento Kings 4-3, the Detroit Red Wings blanked the Edmonton Oilers 5-0, the Colorado Avalanche downed the Montreal Canadiens 4-1 and the Phoenix Coyotes won a shootout to down the San Jose Sharks 3-2.
A sumo star was born in Japan on Sunday when 24-year-old Takerufuji became the first wrestler in 110 years to win a top-division tournament on his debut, triumphing at the 15-day Spring Grand Sumo Tournament in Osaka despite injuring his ankle on the penultimate day. Takerufuji, whose injury had left him in a wheelchair outside the ring, shoved out the higher-ranked Gonoyama at the Edion Arena Osaka to the delight of the crowd, giving him an unassailable record of 13 wins and two losses to claim the Emperor’s Cup. “I did it just through willpower. I didn’t really know what was going
The US’ Ilia Malinin on Saturday produced six scintillating quadruple jumps, including a quadruple Axel, in the men’s free skate to capture his first figure skating world title. The 19-year-old nicknamed the “Quad god,” who is the only skater to land a quadruple Axel in competition, dazzled with an array of breathtakingly executed jumps starting with his quad Axel and including a quadruple Lutz in combination with a triple flip and a quadruple toe loop in combination with a triple toe. He added an unexpected triple-triple combination at the end to earn a world-record 227.79 in the free program for a championship
Shohei Ohtani’s interpreter is being criminally investigated by the IRS, and the attorney for his alleged bookmaker said Thursday that the ex-Los Angeles Dodgers employee placed bets on international soccer — but not baseball. The IRS confirmed Thursday that interpreter Ippei Mizuhara and Mathew Bowyer, the alleged illegal bookmaker, are under criminal investigation through the agency’s Los Angeles Field Office. IRS Criminal Investigation spokesperson Scott Villiard said he could not provide additional details. Mizuhara, 39, was fired by the Dodgers on Wednesday following reports from the Los Angeles Times and ESPN about his alleged ties to an illegal bookmaker and debts well
MLB on Friday announced a formal investigation into the scandal swirling around Shohei Ohtani and his former interpreter amid charges that the Los Angeles Dodgers superstar was the victim of “massive theft.” The Dodgers on Wednesday fired Ippei Mizuhara, Ohtani’s long-time interpreter and close friend, after Ohtani’s representatives alleged that the Japanese two-way star had been the victim of theft, which was reported to involve millions of dollars and link Mizuhara to a suspected illegal bookmaker in California. “Major League Baseball has been gathering information since we learned about the allegations involving Shohei Ohtani and Ippei Mizuhara from the news media,” MLB